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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
le IKE all frontiersmen, Ben is strong 
on dogs. At the time of my last 
visit, he possessed thirty-two, but or- 
dinarily they do not number more than 
eighteen or twenty. The pride of the 
kennels is Patsy, a four-year-old red 
Irish retriever. Patsy is an intelligent 
and very industrious little dog, but she 
always looks so sad and depressed that 
my psycho-analytical confrere, Dr. 
Cooper, insists that she is suffering 
from an inferiority complex, probably 
exaggerated by some early domestic or 
matrimonial entanglement. She dis- 
trusts all strangers, but is devoted to 
Ben. Personally, I like Lady, a beauti- 
ful Llewellyn setter, best, although two 
of her puppies, June and Toby, have 
developed into excellent grouse dogs. 
After a hearty luncheon, we slipped 
into our shooting togs, and then, ac- 
companied by Ben, with Lady and 
Toby, fared forth in search of grouse 
and chicken. During the middle of the 
day, the birds are to be found on the 
tops of the hills, but in the early morn- 
ing and late afternoon, they congregate 
in the valleys, and are prone to fore- 
gather in the sunflower thickets and 
weed patches. About a mile from the 
ranch house likely looking territory 
was reached, and we sent the dogs in 
and followed closely after, guns at the 
ready. Dr Bishoff is an: enthusiastic 
devotee of the automatic. I had the 
little twenty. 
Toby, in his youth and enthusiasm, 
rushed in too close, and a big, grayish, 
mottled bird went up like a bombshell, 
right under his nose. I was on the far 
right, and as the grouse sprung out 
of the tall stalks, it was almost fifty 
yards ahead of me. I flipped the little 
gun up, swung the muzzle over for a 
ten inch lead, and pulled the rear trig- 
ger. Ben heard the tiny report, which 
sounded like that of a healthy young 
fire cracker, but did not see the bird 
crumple up and fall. “Did you have 
a miss fire, Doc?” he called. “Yep,” 
I answered; as I strode over to where 
Toby was mouthing the dead bird. 
When Weber saw me pick it up, he 
said: “Well, accidents will happen, even 
in the sand hills.” But before the after- 
noon had passed, even Ben was com- 
pelled to acknowledge that the twenty 
was a real he-gun. Bishoff was luckier 
in the matter of opportunities, but even 
with Fate pulling his way, he got only 
ten birds to my nine. And I wasted 
only one cartridge. 
les next morning, shortly after day- 
break, we started for Spring Lake, 
fifteen miles away, after ducks. While 
I had learned to admire the little gun, 
my confidence in it was not yet ab- 
solute, and so I carried the Purdy. On 
long shots, I follow the teachings of 
dear old Colonel Hawker, and stick to 
heavy shot, fours or fives, unchilled: 
And of course one feels that a ten or 
a twelve handles large pellets better 
than a small bore does. Luck was with — 
us, at both the lake and the adjacent 
pass, and we killed five grouse on our 
way home. 
That night some acquaintances from 
Omaha arrived, and as all of them had 
not expected to shoot, they were short 
of ammunition. So we divided our 
larger cartridges with them, and I had 
a plentiful supply of shells for the 
“Baby Express,” as Ben had_nick- 
named the little Ithaca, I depended 
solely on it during the rest of our stay. 
It was just as deadly on ducks as on 
grouse, and handled sixes as well as 
any large bore could. 
Owing to the 
scarcity of the pellets, one had to hold — 
more carefully, for guess work meant a 
miss. In “pass” shooting, I found that 
less lead was required than with the 
Purdy, possibly owing to quicker lock 
work; although Bishoff insisted that 
the shot just “got there quicker.” At 
any rate, the six pound weapon held 
its own with the nine, and nine and a 
half pounders on the lakes, and more 
than took care of itself in the grouse 
fields. I am anxious to give it a trial 
with very fine shot on quail. Owing to 
the closeness of the pattern, I suspect 
that in thick brush many of the bob- 
whites will get away; but the barrels 
are so short, and the gun handles so 
perfect, that I may be able to get the 
drop on the majority of them. 
Under any circumstances, after my 
very pleasurable Nebraskan experience, 
I fear that I am well on the way to 
becoming a twenty-gauge “fan.” 

“Principally Grouse” 
(Continued from page 581) 
plentiful, and dog and gun moved from 
point to point with a_ business-like 
regularity which would be impossible 
to-day. An hour out of one of those 
average days would furnish a modern 
bird hunter with satisfaction enough 
to fill two red-letter days. But Warden 
and his dog would turn small profit in 
those same thickets to-day, and not be- 
cause of a noticeable scarcity of birds, 
either, for grouse are nearly, if not 
quite as plentiful now as then, but be- 
cause the modern grouse would fail to 
maneuver on Spanish War tactics. The 
birds seem to have abandoned mass 
formations in favor of the defensive 
strategies of the German Army in the 
Argonne. Dispersion is now aw fait in 
grouse service schools. Duke would 
need to cover five times the area he 
worked over in 1895 to locate a dozen 
birds, and of the dozen, eight, at least, 
would be on wing and away without 
It will identify you. 
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